ABSTRACT
Within the broader field of management and organization studies, risk, emergency and crisis research has attracted an increasing interest among scholars over the past decades. Reviews show that research has been published in a variety of outlets and that the literature is based on different theoretical and methodological approaches (Buchanan & Denyer, 2013). As a result, there have been repeated calls for integration (Bundy et al., 2017; James et al., 2011; Williams et al., 2017). In a recent literature review based on 138 papers from top-tier journals published between 1980 and 2015, we suggest that the notion of extreme contexts would be useful for reducing the fragmentation characterizing risk, emergency and crisis research (Hällgren, Rouleau, & de Rond, 2018). Put differently, the idea of extreme contexts brings together resemblances across different areas of research; therefore, it can be used to identify common denominators. The aim of this chapter is to examine the methodological trends and opportunities in the empirical papers we reviewed, in order to identify some patterns and trajectories.
